"I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between."

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Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.75, Canongate Books

Erlend Loe

#Thinking Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.”
“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”
“If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.”
“The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.”
“I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.”
“Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)”
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.”
“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

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